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Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

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<strong>Little</strong> <strong>Women</strong>carriage, many gifts, and splendid outfit with her own, andsecretly wishing she could have the same. But somehowenvy and discontent soon vanished when she thought ofall the patient love and labor John had put into the littlehome awaiting her, and when they sat together in thetwilight, talking over their small plans, the future alwaysgrew so beautiful and bright that she forgot Sallie’ssplendor and felt herself the richest, happiest girl inChristendom.Jo never went back to Aunt March, for the old ladytook such a fancy to AMy that she bribed her with theoffer of drawing lessons from one of the best teachersgoing, and for the sake of this advantage, Amy would haveserved a far harder mistress. So she gave her mornings toduty, her afternoons to pleasure, and prospered finely. Jomeantime devoted herself to literature and Beth, whoremained delicate long after the fever was a thing of thepast. Not an invalid exactly, but never again the rosy,healthy creature she had been, yet always hopeful, happy,and serene, and busy with the quiet duties she loved,everyone’s friend, and an angel in the house, long beforethose who loved her most had learned to know it.As long as THE SPREAD EAGLE paid her a dollar acolumn for her ‘rubbish’, as she called it, Jo felt herself a418 of 861

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